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- "Onlar bana geliyorlar."
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In this context, does "to me" mean to my house? Like chez moi in French or zu mir in German?
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Bana literally means "to me". Other examples are sana "to you", onlara "to them", bize "to us".
On the translatıon for bana ti says öne option is 'for me'. Why then is 'they are coming for me' wrong.
hints are not sentence specific. in some contexts Turkish does not differentiate between "for me" and "to me", but here it is completely different.
What if i wanted to say that "they are coming 'for' me? Is in Turkish language a difference between to and for?
We use "geliyorlar" and not "geliyor" because it is about people and not things?
In fact, Both -yor and -yorlar can only be used with the personal pronouns. Otherwise, when it comes to things, one cannot add -ler to nouns.
Ler/lar is just here to precise if it's plural or not
Since "onlar" already show us that it's multiple person then you don't need to add lar/ler to the verbs. (this cannot be used for pronouns or nouns ex :
O makarna yerler - is incorrect Kus guzeller - is incorrect
Corba icerler - is correct kitap yaziyorlar - is correct
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Why is this translated to me rather than for me when in a previous exercise Bana was used in this way: "Bana gözlük al!" translated as "Buy glasses for me!" Shouldn't it be Benim icin gözlük al! ?
"Bana gözlük al" means "Buy glasses to me" and "Benim için gözlük al" means "Buy glasses for me"
"Bana gözlük al" means "Buy glasses to me"
"Buy glasses to me" sounds wrong to me in English.
